Our research is focused on Metabolic Engineering - the improvement of cellular
properties, using modern genetic tools. This field encompasses two important components:
<b>a)</b> the modification of biochemical pathways inside cells and <b>b)</b> the rigorous
evaluation of the resulting cellular phenotypes. In recent years our group has investigated
the following topics:

<li><b><a href="Diabetes.shtml">Elucidating type II diabetes by
linking the expression and metabolic phenotypes of hepatoma and hepatocyte
cells.</b></a>
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To accomplish the above goals we make use of a diverse array of scientific tools and

methods, many of which have also become areas of research for our group: